The B.A. Compartment Examination

CANDIDATES in the examination for the Bachelor of Arts degree, who fail in one subject but are so fortunate as to under the compartment rule, have a just grievance in the matter of the dates of their supplementary examination, as compared with their brethren of the Intermediate examination. The latter go up for their supplementary examination in the month of December and, on passing the same, are as good students for the B.A. examination as those who passed that test at the annual examination. Those who come under the compartment rule in the B.A. have, however, to wait till the annual examination in May when they go up for the single subject in which they respectively failed at the last examination. Apart from the fact that, unlike the Intermediate candidates they are denied a second chance during one year, they have to waste one whole year in waiting for their supplementary examination in one subject in which they had already appeared at the examination and failed, possibly by a few marks.